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> It may be more feasible to sell $3000 smartphones than to sell VR headsets at this price. Sure, now it is. But what about when the iPhone was first introduce
by dom96 3y ago
> It may be more feasible to sell $3000 smartphones than to sell VR headsets at this price.
Sure, now it is. But what about when the iPhone was first introduced? It didn't cost anywhere near this much money. For a new product category such as this it makes sense to start out with a cheap product so that as many people adopt it as possible, then you can begin introducing more expensive versions when you have the apps ecosystem to support it.
- cubefox 3y agoYeah, but Apple is doing the exact opposite here. They introduce their headset at an exceptionally high price.
- OkGoDoIt 3y agoThe original iPhone was cheaper than iPhones are today, but it was ridiculously expensive compared to every other phone on the market including smartphones. It was $800 after the carrier subsidy with a two-year contract. Most windows phones and blackberries and trios and comparable devices that had substantially more functionality at the time were between free and $200 with the carrier subsidy. The iPhone had a superior user experience, but very limited functionality and an extremely high price point. Obviously the functionality improved pretty quickly and the price point came down a bit, although it never really came down much, mostly everything else just got more expensive.
- crooked-v 3y agoApple has almost never started out with a cheap product. The only notable exception would be the original iMac G3, and even then it was significantly weaker than every competitor in its price range [1]. [1]: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/09/macvp2.idg/ http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/09/macvp2.idg/